Big daddy -- The block trader -- Paul Samuelson's secret -- The alchemist -- Top cat -- Rock and roll cowboy -- White Wednesday -- Hurricane Greenspan -- Soros versus Soros -- The enemy is us -- The dot-com double -- The Yale men -- The code breakers -- Premonitions of a crisis -- Riding the...

According to the often-cited CapCo study (2003) about hedge fund failures, 50% of the failures were driven by Operational Risk. Not only for hedge funds, but also for other asset management companies – such as private equity companies, family offices or independent asset managers - operational...

This text explores the current state of the art in quantitative investment management across seven key areas. Chapters by academics and practitioners working in leading investment management organizations bring together major theoretical and practical aspects of the field.

Introduction -- Chapter I: The Early American Corporation -- Chapter II: Adolf Berle and the Modern Corporation -- Chapter III: The Rise of Asset Manager Capitalism -- Chapter IV: The Emergence of the Shareholder Primacy Paradigm -- Chapter V: The New Stakeholder Capitalism and ESG -- Chapter...

"In Top Hedge Fund Investors, Rittereiser and Kochard have put to rest any lingering doubts that hedge funds have become an essential component of successful investment programs. When a collection of extraordinarily talented individuals, like those profiled in this book, dedicate their lives to...